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Athletic dept. explains policy Officials discuss football seating enforcement with student government By Meghan Chua The Daily Cardinal

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Over 1,600 UW-Madison students attended the Charity Stripe Fundraiser hosted by men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan to raise money and awareness for cancer research.

Students show up to ‘make Bo pay’ By Ted Porath and Sam Cusick The Daily Cardinal

University of WisconsinMadison men’s basketball coach Bo Ryan issued the Charity Stripe Challenge to UW-Madison students Thursday, and over 1,600 responded to “Make Bo Pay.” Ryan and his wife will donate over $40,000 for cancer research after students met Ryan’s challenge by showing up in crowds to the Kohl Center. Students had the opportunity to fight cancer simply by showing up to the event, as Ryan donated $1 to Coaches vs. Cancer/American Cancer Society for every student that attended. Students could also make Ryan

pay more by making baskets, $10 for every free throw made and $1,000 for a half court shot. In addition to helping fight cancer, students could win free men’s basketball season tickets, Badger gear and raffle prizes including autographed basketballs and $250 Best Buy gift cards. Members of the men’s basketball team also made an appearance. Ryan said he hosted the event because he and his wife have been “fortunate in life” and wanted to give back. He said the students made the event unforgettable. “This has been better than we ever dreamed,” Ryan said. “We had no idea that we would get this kind of turnout.”

Junior guard Ben Brust said he appreciates Ryan hosting the event, since many students are affected by cancer in some way. “To be man enough to take money that you’ve worked hard for your whole life and to put it to something that can benefit other families in the future, it’s a really cool thing,” Brust said. “I’m sure it means a lot to people who came here and I know it means a lot to me.” While Ryan may have ended up paying more than he expected, he said he is happy to write the check because the world needs a cure for cancer. “We gotta find a way to beat this thing,” Ryan said. “And here’s one way, make a couple shots.”

Officials from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Athletic Department met with student government leaders at a meeting Thursday to talk about their response to student seating issues in Camp Randall as well as a new incentive program the ticket office is testing for student basketball tickets this season. Ben Fraser, director of guest services with the athletic department, said they have faced challenges with student section seating at football games in the past, including students sitting in the wrong seats or taking up too much space and non-students sitting in the section. The athletic department increased enforcement of seating students in the row and section printed on their ticket in response

to student season ticket holder feedback in post-game surveys that had pointed out those issues, according to Fraser. However, Associated Students of Madison Press Office Director David Gardner said the Athletic Department’s approach did not include students, and added parts of student council are setting up meetings between members, university administration and police for further discussion. Gardner said it is important that students know what decisions university officials are making rather than react to decisions officials have already made. One example, which Gardner said did not originate from a student perspective, is a test program for student basketball season tickets. This year, students will receive points for being at the game before tipoff or attending more non-conference games, according to Fraser. Those points would determine who gets tickets to the seats closer to the court during the Big 10 season. Gardner said that the students who are going to the games deserve a voice in relevant decisions. “From the backlash they’ve got-

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State again asks for stay on Act 10 ruling Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen filed a motion with the Wisconsin Court of Appeals Thursday asking for a stay on Circuit Court Judge Juan Colas’ decision repealing large parts of Gov. Scott Walker’s Act 10 law. Just three days ago, Colas denied Van Hollen’s original request for a stay on the Dane County Judge’s Sept. 14 decision, which repealed parts of Act 10 because he said

they violated several of the workers’ First Amendment rights. In his Monday decision, Colas said he denied the state’s request because the state “failed to show that there is an irreparable harm to them that favors a stay.” But in his Thursday motion seeking a stay on the ruling, Van Hollen argued a stay would prevent confusion for local governments, which began implement-

ing the law June 2011. “A stay is needed to avoid confusion and to avoid other harm that might result if local governments are not able to take full advantage of Act 10 while an appeal is pending,” Van Hollen said in a statement. “The circuit court failed to fully and properly consider the factors that sup-

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Soglin includes funding for music festival in 2013 budget By Abby Becker The Daily Cardinal

Mayor Paul Soglin’s proposed operating budget for 2013 includes funding to support Madison’s vibrant music scene through a new music festival. The city’s financial committee,

the Board of Estimates, approved $25,000 to fund Make Music Madison, a new music festival designed to bring together the community through a shared musical experience on June 21, 2013. “The idea of [Make Music Madison] is that it is just sort

of a holiday where citizens are encouraged to bring music to outdoor spaces,” Arts Program Administrator Karin Wolf said. Wolf said community members can sign up as individuals

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After Christopher Schwartz was arrested for growing marijuana in a school building, some students say that it’s “not that big of a deal.”

Weed found in Biochemistry A Fake News Building Friday special By Erik Thiel Fake News Friday

After police arrested UW-Madison researcher Christopher Schwartz for growing between 200 and 1000 grams of marijuana in the Biochemistry Building, two students and a botany professor came to the conclusion that growing the ganj “wasn’t dope” or in other words, not as big a deal as heroin to get angry about. Super senior Chip Biggins said he thought Schwartz could have had a more lucrative business harvesting something more illegal. “I can appreciate the whole ‘Breaking Bad’ thing the guy was going for, but I mean, come on. Might as well’ve been growing coke or ecstasy.” Biggins said. Mary Joan Malloy, a junior, was completely unaware of the entire incident. “Damn, Chris got locked up? That’s rough. He was a generous guy, never asked questions

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either,” Malloy said, between bites of a chalupa. “Why all the attacks on small-business owners?” While the UW administration said in a press release that they were “uneasy” about possible copycatters starting their own cannabis gardens, botany professor Guy Mitchell said, “Ehhhhhh,” shrugging.

“I can appreciate the whole ‘Breaking Bad’ thing the guy was going for, but I mean, come on.” Chip Biggins super-senior UW-Madison

“I don’t think we have to worry about someone doing what Schwartz did,” Mitchell said. “His stuff was too good to be replicated.”

Precariously pulling at Princess Periwinkles precious heart, Piccolo Pete produced the perfect plump pumpkin for her. Wednesday, Pete pranced playing “Pushkin’s Procession” on his piccolo—all while plucking purple petunias Periwinkles’ pink poncho. Picturing pleasant premonitions Pete piqued as the princesses principle pasttimes. Prince Pumptwell of Pennsylvania, Periwinkles p r e de st i n e d p a r t n e r, promptly proclaimed problems with Pete’s persistence. Propelling pistols proudly pointed towards Pete’s paws, Pumptwell hoped to pulverize Pete’s pinwheel painted palms. “Pew! Pew! Pew!” the pistols punctuated. Pistachios poured from Pete’s punctured pouch; the pistol’s power went “poop.” Pete’s pervading positivity and pacifism proliferated, pulsing in Periwinkle’s peripheral nervous system. Pumptwell promptly punc-

tuated profanities. Pete patiently pondered peace for Pumptwell and protection from poppycock pouring puny Pumptwell. Promptly Pete peeked pumpkins protruding perched in the prickly Perconley’s Pumpkin Patch. Perconley paced particularly poorly, perhaps poodles puddles poisoned her pride. Pete posed perfect peppermint for Perconley who perked positively pointedly. Perconley proclaimed; “Poodles! Pick perfect pumpkin for Pete!” Poodles plundered Perconley’s Pumpkin Patch persistently progressively. Pumptwell prophesying post-pumpkin partnership of Princess Periwinkle and Pete, practically departed for parsley popsicle pies. Pete, pushing the poodle’s propitious preposition to the peripheral, picked precisely the particularly purposeful pumpkin. Periwinkle proposed perfunctory to Pete. Pete pledged punctual perfect piccolo pitter-patters forever more.

Police prepare for a weekend full of far, far “too much fun” By Regina Phalange FAKE NEWS FRIDAY

The Madison Police Department said it was concerned that the confluence of Homecoming with the annual Halloween celebration will lead to students indulging in dangerous levels of fun this weekend. Police said that fun has always been a large problem at football games, especially big games like Homecoming. But with these events coinciding with Freakfest, which has traditionally been one of the biggest weekends of the year for fun in Madison, police said

they might be overwhelmed by the amount of fun they expect to be had. When these events have coincided in the past, students have indulged in fun to the point where silliness reached obstructive levels and students reporting cases of the giggles hit their highest number since the release of “Wayne’s World” in 1992. University officials said they encouraged students to seek alternatives to fun this weekend, such as attending the Homecoming Parade or forming study groups with like-minded peers.

Biochemistry building’s recent aloofness, munchie-nomming explained By Yams McYummy, M.D. FAKE NEWS FRIDAY

Biochemistry professors discovered why their beloved Biochemistry Building was “so chill” the last few months just minutes after the police arrested Biochemistr y researcher Christopher Schwartz for growing up to 1000 grams of marijuana. Professor Edwin Albright said since mid-summer everything in the building

seemed to “move a whole lot slower,” all the sounds got “alarmingly intense,” and, in sharp contrast to business as usual being a biochemist, Albright said he felt “unusually content” inside. Associate professor Edward Fulbraugh added he would often find his daily breakfast of Bugels and Nutter Butters strewn across the floor on Thursdays, when Wisconsin Public Television

airs “Bill Nye the Science Guy” and “Zoom” reruns.

“I was pretty confused why I was feeling the way I did... I can’t remember [why] now.” Edward Fulbraugh Associate Professor UW-Madison

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they were pleased that life in the Biochemistry Building has gone back to normal, Fulbraugh said he could not quite put his finger on it but he thought fondly of, and even missed how he felt in the building before the arrest. “I was pretty confused why I was feeling the way I did,” Fulbraugh said. “At the time I had all these ideas of why I felt so, but I can’t remember any of them now.”

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Former ‘Scrubs’ producer discusses non-profit work By Sam Cusick The Daily Cardinal

University of WisconsinMadison alumnus Josh Bycel spoke on campus Thursday about his experience in the Hollywood industry, including work on noted television shows such as “Scrubs” and “Happy Endings,” as well as his non-profit work. Bycel visited campus as part of the Wisconsin Rewind Lecture, which is hosted by a partnership of the Distinguished Lecture Series and the Homecoming Committee. He graduated from UW-Madison in 1993. The lecture, which Bycel titled “Finding Your Voice,” emphasized that students can not learn and succeed without trying and failing, and they

should not let the fear of failing keep them from trying in the first place. Bycel focused most of his speech on his non-profit organization, OneKid OneWorld, which he uses to rebuild schools in Africa and Central America. Since its inception in 2006, the organization has raised over $750,000 and helped over 5,000 students. OneKid OneWorld focuses mainly on improving schools in Kenya and El Salvador, but has plans to expand into more countries in both Africa and South America, according to Bycel. While his work may seem difficult, Bycel said anyone can do what he has, if they just find something they are passionate about and actually do it. He says he lives by his organiza-

tion’s motto, which is “Life is Short. Make a difference.” Bycel said his work with his organization ties in well to UW-Madison’s Homecoming week, since the theme of the 2012 Homecoming week is a renewed commitment to community service. According to Bycel, his time at UW-Madison had a profound impact on his career and the lessons he learned on campus continue to shape how he lives his life. “I learned to always be open to new possibilities and new things,” Bycel said. “Madison is a place that has everything you could ever want, and there is always something interesting going on. And that’s the key to this place, to take advantage of everything.”

Obama to visit Green Bay Tuesday

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President Barack Obama will campaign in Green Bay Tuesday, just one day before Republican Vice Presidential candidate and Wisconsin native Paul Ryan will visit the state. Additionally, Vice President Joe Biden will be in Oshkosh and Kenosha Friday. Public Policy Polling, a Democratic polling agency, released a poll Thursday showing Obama is up six points on Mitt Romney in Wisconsin. Another poll released last week suggested a virtual tie between the two candidates. The President will also visit Colorado and Ohio next week.

appeals from page 1 port the appropriateness of a stay pending appeal in this litigation.” The Department of Justice also issued a 51-page brief Thursday, arguing Colas’ ruling that the First Amendment guarantees public employees the right to associate is flawed. “It is not possible to burden any right of employees to associate for the purpose of collectively bargaining because … the right of association does not extend to collective bargaining,” the DOJ said in a statement. No timeline has been released for the Court of Appeals’ decision on the stay. —Jack Casey

seating from page 1 ten on the [football seating policy], they’ll hopefully bring ideas like the reward system forward and students can provide our input on how to improve those,” Gardner said. A survey from after last week’s football game showed a change of heart for the first time this season among students, who reported they appreciated the efforts to get them into their seats, according to Fraser. “We do have the best student section in the country,” Fraser said. “We want to make sure you guys have a great experience, and that’s why we’re trying to get people their seating.”

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UW-Madison alumnus Josh Bycel speaks to students about his experiences in Hollywood and his non-profit organzation.

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SSFC Chair Ellie Bruecker will defend the committee’s decision to deny funding to CFACT at an upcoming hearing.

Student organization to appeal SSFC decision on eligibility Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow will appeal the decision student government officials made Oct. 8 to deny the group funding eligibility. According to Student Services Finance Committee Chair Ellie Bruecker, CFACT is alleging SSFC violated viewpoint neutrality when it assessed the group for funding eligibility and its services are identical to those of other organizations which received eligibility. SSFC denied CFACT funding eligibility because members of the committee saw no clear and identifiable direct service in the group’s function, according to Bruecker. CFACT will appeal the eligibility decision to the Student Judiciary in a hearing that will likely take place in the next few weeks, Bruecker said. SSFC also passed two student organizations’ budgets Thursday. The committee passes budgets based on the unique and tailorable educational services a group

makes available to all students. Vets for Vets proposed a $33,584 budget, including money for updated facilities and additional outreach programs, which the committee passed. Additionally, SSFC approved the budget the Campus Women’s Center proposed, which includes funds for a well-known speaker. SSFC approved a $90,462.29 amended budget for the group. “Both of [the budgets] came out looking really good,” Bruecker said. “It’s the right amount that they need.” The committee also heard a budget proposal from the Student Leadership Program, a student organization that funds events such as the All-Campus Leadership Conference, which is open to all students. SSFC will vote on SLP’s budget at its meeting Monday, as well as hear budget proposals from student groups F.H. King and Sex Out Loud. —Meghan Chua

in Soglin’s budget that Board of Estimates members cut was a proposal to make a music video promoting Madison. Soglin compared his musical video vision to one that Grand Rapids, Michigan created, which featured community members walking around town singing along to “American Pie” and has received over five million views on Youtube.

or as a band to perform for community members in public places throughout Madison, such as Library Mall, areas along State Street and in local parks. The goal is to create a “wall of music” by hosting a hundred free mini concerts in communities across Madison, according to Wolf. “I’m very excited about the fact that it will engage thousands of citizens in a creative “Music is one of the very act,” Wolf said. unique art forms that tranAld. Scott Resnick, District scends almost every socio8, said the city should not economic class.” only provide funding for city services such as fire and Soctt Resnick police officers, but also for alder District 8 events such as Make Music Madison which promote the musical opportunities the city has to offer. While some council mem“Music is one of the very bers agreed the video would unique art forms that tran- benefit the city, Ald. Satya scends almost every socio- Rhodes-Conway, District 12, economic class,” Resnick said a “slick” video created said. “It’s something that we to draw tourism to Madison can all appreciate.” would be a “flop.” But Board of Estimates mem“What you want is something bers did not agree with all of that is low-budget, ad hoc done by Soglin’s music ideas for the city. some UW student in their dorm One of the proposed items room,” Rhodes-Conway said.

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As Big Gigantic are moving from West to East between September and New Year’s Eve on their Uprising Tour, drummer Jeremy Salken took time to chat with The Daily Cardinal as he sat in Des Moines, Iowa, pondering whether or not to get Sushi from a landlocked city. “Tour is going really well, and we are like playing every day,” Salken said. “Dom [Lalli] and I are just like really getting into the zone as far as that is concerned, our playing, our improvising, stuff like that.” Formed in 2008 in Boulder, Colo. by Dominic Lalli on saxophone, keyboards and a laptop running music program Ableton and Jeremy Salken on drums, this formidable duo has further blurred the line between electronica and the realm of jam bands. “We kind of have this history with the jam band world that we feel close to,” said Salken. “And at the same time I’m lucky that all these EDM kids have kind of picked up on us also, and now we are riding the line between all the scenes.” Further evidence of this fluctuation between scenes is demonstrated by the festivals the band has played. The band has gone from Ultra Music Festival, one of the preeminent EDM festivals in the country, to their upcoming second appearance on the Jam Cruise, a floating jam band festival on a cruise ship. Their supporting slots for other crossover jam bands such as the Disco Biscuits and STS9 early in their career spurred this type of shifting between genres. The band’s latest album, Nocturnal , reached a new height of success for the duo as it reached the number two

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The two members of Big Gigantic will pump up the crowds at Freakfest as they stop through on their current Uprising Tour. spot on the iTunes Electronic Chart. This feat is even more impressive since the band gave the album away for free through its website. With the success of their latest release, the duo is looking to put out another album early next year. However, finding time to write music has always been a challenge. “We kind of build these little breaks in,” said Salken. “We are trying to do another album at the beginning of next year and make it a yearly thing, but we never really take off time. So, it’s like impossible, but Dom has been writing a lot on the road. We took off all of September so that way he could go into the studio and do his thing.” The Uprising Tour wraps up

on New Year’s Eve, almost four months after it started, and the band is promising big things. “We have a couple tricks, we can’t let all those cats out of the bag,” said Slken. New Year’s Eve is one of the biggest nights for jam bands, and Big Gigantic is taking full advantage of the magnitude of the day. Following up last year’s performance at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago, the band will once again return to the Windy City, this time to the Aragon Ballroom. Playing the Aragon is a big step up for Lalli and Salken as it is twice the size of the Riviera. “Hopefully we get a new [visual] set going, but if we don’t, it’s definitely going to be

an incredibly beefed up version of what we already have,” Salken said. “We are going to put on another huge show.” On stage, these two have a keen sense of improvisation with both the songs themselves and their setlists. “We actually kind of have a setlist … at the same time Dom’s Ableton session has almost every song that we play, so at any moment he can go off the path and choose your own adventure kind of thing if the crowd is feeling a certain way,” said Salken. This ability to feel the pulse of the crowd and react accordingly is one of the many reasons why Big Gigantic has been able to headline places such as Red

Rocks out in Colorado. “Doing Red Rocks was obviously like the pinnacle out of all of it,” said Salken. “And we were just super psyched and super blessed to be able to do that kind of show.” Big Gigantic comes into Madison for a headlining slot on the Gilman Stage at 11:45 p.m. for Saturday night Freakfest, the annual Halloween celebration on State Street. “Madison is awesome,” said Salken. “Being a college town, there is obviously a lot of young kids and that energy, and we love coming [to Madison] because you guys bring it all the time. Every time we’ve been it’s been crazy and with Freakfest we are really pumped to be coming back.”

Internet kills possibility of achieving a hip-hop ‘classic’ Michael Penn ii pen(n) game stressful

thank whichever higher power exists for the Internet. But God knows I can despise the people on it. I also thank the aforementioned higher power for not having the Internet explode in popularity in the 1990s. Not in the overall user sense, but a musical one; I am so happy hip-hop was not the way it is currently in the 1990s. We would be in a much different place and I am unsure if that is a good assertion. The Internet has provided a medium for trolls and haters and stans alike. For those unfamiliar with the terms, here’s a simple breakdown: Trolls are people who joke without remorse in a spectrum ranging from intelligence and subtle sarcasm to absolutely unnecessary discontent. Haters are… self-explanatory for anyone who lived to see Chamillionaire succeed (at the absolute minimum). The term “stan” is an allu-

sion to the classic Eminem single “Stan,” that portrays an obsessive superfan’s descent into infatuation with Em himself to the point of ruining his life, then killing himself and his girlfriend. (Today, this intensity does not hold true; now, it just means someone who will like an artist and defend them to no avail regardless of situation or context.) The embodiment of this jargon has all contributed to essentially killing the mythology of a “classic album” together in a disillusioned, unified step in the wrong direction. And at this point, it has become unstoppable. I am unsure if the classic even exists in hip-hop anymore; furthermore, if it can even be obtained. We are wandering in a state of public opinion left agape with the bias, slants and preconceived notions one can expect at any point in time. Allow me to re-emphasize such: These opinions are nothing new at all. But what has exacerbated the problem at hand as it has to many issues in our world? The Internet. This playground has allowed the trolls, the haters and the stans to run amuck in a stream of

piss-poor ALL CAPS grammar errors, shameless self-plugs and anonymous comments about buying YouTube views for $39.99. Regardless of where your voice falls onto the spectrum, allow me to ask you this: What was the last classic hip-hop album you listened to? Thankfully with the Monday passing as I compose this rant, Oct. 22 marked the release of the last classic I have heard in a long drought of disappointments (Hi, Lupe!), mediocrity (Big Sean, I see you!), pushbacks (cough, Detox), and sequels to Tha Carter series that only get worse. That album is called good kid, m.A.A.d city by a man named Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar Duckworth from Compton and Rosecrans in the state best known for women, weed and weather has been hailed as the savior of hip-hop and the torchbearer for the new generation at the age of 25. Many pondered if Kendrick’s transition to Interscope at the hands of Dr. Dre would cause him to falter in the limelight of mainstream politics that have ruined careers aplenty. You know what? He didn’t. It

was worth all of my $13 and I refuse to hear otherwise. Classic. There are many who share this sentiment, but don’t dare to call it a “classic.” Why not? An ethos has been established in the current flow of the hip-hop community that has made the mythological reach of a “classic” unattainable and invisible. Like a levee holding the pride of consumers ashore, there is this misconception that an album must sit for years, even decades, to be hailed as a classic. The best pieces of music are timeless; this truth is self-evident. But the Internet has condemned us all from proclaiming a pedestal for our favorites. We are no longer entitled to classics. If these trolls, these haters, these fans had these utilities in 1994 when Nas first released Illmatic, an album hailed as a quintessential classic in the genre as Jane Eyre is to literature, would we have hailed it as a classic then? Now? Absolutely not. The public opinion creates martyrs out of what we enjoy in an endless and violent thrust of subjectivity with no real winner. The trolls would have compared Illmatic to whatever Weird Al album was out in the

span of a year. The haters would claim how Nas did not sound as good on Illmatic as he did on this rare Queensbridge demo tape only 15 people have or how he is garbage in the eyes of Eric B. & Rakim. The stans would defend it as hip-hop heads have for decades now as an absolute untouchable. The exact same has applied to good kid, m.A.A.d city and it has been (legally) available for four days now. Trolls have compared Kendrick to Gucci Mane’s latest tape, haters (Hi, Shyne!) will call this masterpiece garbage and stans will continue to hail him to a near-Black Jesus stature of hiphop greatness. It has reached universal appeal with critics, though some choose not to place it upon the mythical pedestal we cherish so much. Opinions will be what they may. But we cannot let the classic die before our eyes because someone else will demand it so along with our compliance. Don’t kill my vibe. Do you hit the forums hard in critique or defense of new music? Tell Michael what you think about the Internet’s role in music by emailing mdpenn@wisc.edu.

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LCD CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Word meaning “hello” and “goodbye” 6 Add to a database 11 Portly plus 14 Martin’s “Laugh-In” partner 15 Light, semitransparent fabric 16 Fudge the facts 17 Use teasing deception 19 Supposed psychic gift 20 Routing term 21 Juan Peron’s first lady 22 Student inside ivied walls 23 Brief time periods 27 Having common ancestors 29 1969 “bed-in” figure 30 “This” counterpart 32 Notorious fiddler 33 Half a French dance move 34 Palindrome for epic reads 36 Sends through a sieve 39 Went quickly 41 Desert drifter 43 Natural do 44 Of Nordic stock 46 Asiatic goat antelope 48 Valdez cargo 49 Ominous date for Caesar

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“Why me?” sound Band of geishas? Handled differently? Stiffly formal “Don’t make me laugh!” 59 Atlanta-to-Richmond dir. 60 Did some consuming 61 Fallopian tube travelers 62 Running back’s maneuver 68 Shelter for feral animals 69 Have fun with Lego blocks 70 Ham and ___ (average Joe) 71 Explain further 72 Wanda of comedy 73 One of an acre’s four DOWN 1 Surrealist Jean 2 Bud’s “Who’s On First?” partner 3 Notable head-turner 4 Reduce by 50 percent 5 Applies holy oil to 6 Morn’s opposite 7 Dissenting chorus 8 Floor installer, at times 9 One and one, side-byside 10 Entertains with fine food and drink, e.g. 11 Swift

12 One of many in a supermarket 13 Not exactly enthusiastic 18 Hale or Lane 23 Brownish chocolate color 24 How the euphoric walk 25 Ready to spend 26 Palms yielding starch 28 Number that’s often in a foreign language 31 Breaks, at the ranch 35 Indian dresses 37 Cleveland Indians, to fans 38 Unbroken, as a line 40 Arp’s art 42 GI ID 45 Superheroes, to villains 47 “Whence” companion 50 “Who goes there?” shouter 53 Valerie Harper sitcom 54 Like chalet roofs 55 Yankees all-star Jeter 57 Send packing 63 Versatile playing card 64 Where-at link 65 “Long, long ___” 66 Old Glory stripe color 67 Virginia Woolf’s “___ Dalloway”

Caved In

By Nick Kryshak nkryshak@wisc.edu

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Weekend, October 26-28, 2012

Mitch Taylor opinion columnist

arijuana can be hard to come by. Few people are willing to risk growing it, and even fewer are willing to risk selling it. This is especially true on college campuses such as UW-Madison where people just don’t smoke weed very much. Marijuana suppliers are so rare that if even one is shut down, it deals a crippling blow to the drug’s local availability. Does that sound wrong? It is. Pot is everywhere. The weed here in Madison could make enough brownies to feed the country of India for a year. My point is that marijuana is here to stay, legal or not. So what happens when, say, a UW researcher is arrested for growing God’s good herb in the Biochemistry Building? The university loses a researcher, the justice system gets more paperwork, some poor dude gets his day ruined, and students keep on smoking grass. The government is not going to stop the growing, selling or usage of marijuana by criminalizing it. Economists have estimated that almost $8 billion is spent on enforcing marijuana

prohibition each year. That much money could buy enough weed to end war forever. What do we get for it? Ten percent of all arrests and a microscopic impact on the availability of pot. Let’s step into my imaginary time machine and look back at alcohol prohibition. It certainly didn’t stop anyone from drinking. Rather, people were just drinking illegally. Businesses couldn’t legally produce alcohol, so the only booze available was either homemade or not meant to be drank for such a purpose. One example is Jamaican ginger extract, or “jake.” Jake had a high concentration of alcohol, but often contained a neurotoxin that caused paralysis and even death. More popular than jake was moonshine, or homemade whiskey. Since moonshine was being produced by criminals instead of government-regulated businesses, it often was not what we would call “safe.” If made irresponsibly, moonshine could contain fatal levels of methanol. And let’s be honest, moonshiners weren’t winning any awards for safety and responsibility. Needless to say, jake and moonshine tasted like absolute balls. Even more than whiskey today, if that’s believable. This goes to show that if people want a product, they will not be deterred by its criminalization. Whenever a product is being

Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, come on roomies, it’s dancing time Noah phillips opinion columnist

oving in with friends can be fraught with difficulties. Dishes pile up. Workloads increase. Patience runs short. My house is composed of seven wonderful people. But wonderful as we are, we have our malaise. Coming home can feel like a chore when you have to walk on eggshells every time you leave your bedroom. It seems as if our lives have turned from a situational comedy into an avant-garde whodunit. It’s a common enough story, but it doesn’t have to happen to you. Make sure you express your appreciation when your housemates do something worthy of it. Speak up when something

bothers you. But the best piece of advice I can give you is this: have dance parties. Have them every night. Gather everyone into your common space. Everyone should bring at least one song to share. It can be upbeat (“I Ain’t Got a Home” by Clarence Henry) or slow (“La Vie En Rose” by Edith Piaf ). What matters is that you all contribute, and that you let your guard down. House dynamics have a lot to do with issues surrounding vulnerability. Be vulnerable. Shake your behind. Shake it harder. Gyrate like your lease depends on it. Three minutes of dancing can break the tension. Ten minutes of dancing can save your friendships. More than 20 minutes of dancing is probably too much. You’re welcome. Send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Harvest Fest is an annual gathering in downtown Madison at which protesters fight marijuana legislation. bought and sold, people are making money. If the thing being traded is illegal, the people making the money are criminals. During alcohol prohibition, Al Capone built his empire smuggling alcohol. Prohibition made Capone. Aside from dangerous gangsters, the people profiting from alcohol sales were the criminals making it, the criminals working for the dangerous gangsters, and the criminals selling it. Unlike Prohibition-era booze, there are no fatal health problems associated with marijuana.

However, not all weed is grown by biochemistry researchers in labs. Pot is produced, like moonshine, without government health regulations. Also, the money from marijuana sales goes to criminals. If the green stuff was legal, that money would go to the legitimate businesses that would produce, transport, and sell it. Remember those eight billion taxpayer dollars that go to enforcing prohibition? Not only would that expense be eliminated, but the government would make money from taxes on weed.

Marijuana prohibition is futile and expensive. That is the argument I present in this piece for its legalization, though there are many others. Barring my untimely death due to a fatal opinion writing accident, I believe that weed will be legal in my lifetime. Until then, biochemistry researchers will keep getting arrested, our jails will keep filling up, the government will keep spending money, and college students will keep getting high. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

No First Amendment for Reddit Jon Shapiro opinion columnist

mericans are confused. No, I am not a communist or a self-loathing civilian, but it is the truth, and Americans are confused on an issue that cannot be ignored: The First Amendment. The First Amendment protects free speech from government action, not privatized company action. About two weeks ago, Reddit, the self-proclaimed “front page of the Internet,” an online forum driven by user participation, edited their site following a report from the news blog Gawker. Gawker outed an infamous Redditor (online lingo for Reddit users), posting under the handle Violentacrez, who gained his notoriety from his tendencies to start forums based around the uploading of child pornography, misogyny and violence. Instantly, Internet users demanded an explanation regarding Reddit’s violation of the First Amendment. The only problem is that Reddit is privately owned and capable of silencing whomever it pleases. When there is public outcry over a company rejecting an opinion and silencing an opposing view, the ignorant criers are the ones who need to be silenced. Instead, the cry should be pointed in a different direction; people should ask where private companies cross the line and go from moderating their material to sterilizing it. Reddit prides itself on anonymity, allowing users to freely post the sick, demented, yet most of the time funny and/or newsworthy thoughts that pop into their heads. Redditors,

including staffers, exploded with anger over the violation of this ideal of anonymity. In their minds, Gawker broke the most important rule: respect the sanctity of anonymity. To many, Gawker crossed the line by revealing Violentacrez’s identity, effectively censoring the material he is willing to publish and turning him into a martyr for free speech on the Internet. But bloggers, racist or tolerant, Republican or Democrat, dog lovers or cat lovers, need to realize that there is no such thing as a black ski mask on the Internet. Post at your own risk. I mean, c’mon. Who really believes that they can remain anonymous on the Internet? By now, anyone who can lift their head has experienced the Internet in one way or another. Over 50 percent of the United States population has a Facebook account. That’s more than the NPR reported percentage of Americans that consider themselves religious. Americans are more connected to Facebook than faith. America’s digital footprint is incredible. It is so large that it would be ludicrous to think that if you infuriate entire communities, not one person will follow your trail and expose you. The question must be asked if it is ethical to expose someone who explicitly states their desire to remain masked. Also, when does it become excusable to break the rules of a private website, like Reddit’s, that encourages and protects anonymity among its users? More than federal law, Gawker broke web-culture code, which is arguably more significant than the former in today’s society. Web culture is becoming so

powerful that it is beginning to undermine United States law. Until news broke of Violentacrez’s true identity and people erupted as if a war hero had been brutally murdered along with a box of kittens, Reddit had allowed child pornography to run rampant throughout the website. Child pornography is an offense that can get you shunned faster than if you killed a man in cold blood (looking at you, Ray Lewis). Just weeks ago, it could be found within seconds on a website that had over 40 million unique visitors last month alone. Yet the law has not touched the website. The line of censorship in my mind must be drawn near the “yelling fire in a crowded theater” principal. Violentacrez’s child pornography ring should have been shut down immediately and Reddit dropped the ball on that one. But if behavior on the Internet is not bringing harm to other individuals, I say let it happen. Let the information grow and let opinions be heard. Until they start causing trouble, how can one interest group silence another in good conscience? Violentacrez, in all of his twisted glory, exemplified what the Internet has become: a place to speak and act freely. But he must be prepared to deal with the consequences of his actions. If someone calls his views into question and can follow his trail of crumbs, they have the right to expose him. Anyone making remarks and posting photos that carry that kind of weight should be able to stand by their opinions in the public light as well as in the shadows of cowardice. Please send all feedback to opinion@dailycardinal.com.

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Badgers host crucial home series to start second half By Cameron Kalmon the daily cardinal

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The Badgers have gotten off to a slower-than-expected start this season, losing three of their last four games. They look to get back on track this weekend at home against New Hampshire.

Wisconsin searching for first win at new LaBahn Arena By Peter Geppert the daily cardinal

After getting off to a 3-0-1 start in which it outscored its opponents 21-7, many expected the Wisconsin women’s hockey team (1-3-2-2 WCHA, 3-3-2 overall) to continue its run of dominance in the sport. A recent 0-3-1 skid, the team’s worst such stretch since the 2001-’02 season, has head coach Mark Johnson and his bunch at a crossroads heading into a weekend series with New Hampshire (1-2 Hockey East, 3-2 overall). Playing last weekend at the grand opener in their new LaBahn Arena, the Badgers were stunned by a 1-0 loss to a Bemidji State team (1-2-1 WCHA, 2-3-1 overall) that had only one win coming into that game. A miscommunication by junior goaltender Alex Rigsby behind the net led to the only goal of the evening and left the Badgers scrambling to avoid being swept in their second consecutive series. A 3-3 tie to cap the series allowed Wisconsin to salvage some points in the WCHA standings, but left UW in search of its first win in the new facilities. “We’ve had a lot of scoring opportunities and a lot of

missed chances, but that’s OK,” Johnson said. “Eventually the tide is going to turn, and those pucks are going to go in.” Coming into this weekend, the Badgers are trying to regain their winning edge, having not notched a victory since a 9-1 triumph over Lindenwood Oct. 6. During the course of its current four-game winless streak, Wisconsin has struggled to find the net, having been shut out in 10 of its last 12 periods of play. A two-goal surge in the third period of Wisconsin’s 3-3 tie with Bemidji State Sunday showed signs of increased production to come. “It’s definitely a day-by-day process,” senior defenseman Alev Kelter said. “Each practice we’re just getting better and focusing on the end goal and the end result.” Sophomore forward Karley Sylvester could be the spark the Badgers need to get back on their groove. Serving as a speedy compliment to senior forward Brianna Decker, Sylvester is tied with Kelter for second on the team with four goals to her name. “She’s logging a lot more minutes than she did last year, and usually we see the biggest jump

in our players between their freshmen and sophomore year,” Johnson said. “Karley is certainly an example of that. She’s worked hard and she’s getting a lot of ice time now and playing well.” Wisconsin will try to reverse its fortunes against a scrappy New Hampshire team that has already pulled off an impressive win this season in downing No. 6 Boston College 4-3 last weekend. The Wildcats are fueled by a stellar crop of new talent, with 20 of their 41 points this season coming via freshmen. Firstyear forwards Sara Carlson and Jonna Curtis lead the attack with six points each. Keeping these confident players in check, especially on the power play—where the Wildcats have scored a goal in all five of their games this season—will be key for the Badgers. “We need to play them tough and play them physical, use some bump and run, which they won’t be used to in college,” Decker said. “Strength and experience will be good against them.” “It will be an entertaining, fast-paced game, won’t be a lot of penalties,” Johnson said. “I’m sure it’ll be entertaining for the fans that come out tomorrow.”

The Wisconsin women’s volleyball team (3-7 Big Ten, 15-8 overall) will host Illinois (4-6, 10-10) Friday at the UW Field House, and Northwestern (14-7, 3-7) will travel to Wisconsin for a Sunday afternoon match. Last week, the Badgers fought a tough four-set match against Indiana, but it was apparent that there was room for improvement. Coach Pete Waite acknowledged that his team had more communication issues on the court than usual. “They’ve been working on [communicating] in practice, as far as their seams and who they are next to on the court,” Waite said. “Generally it works pretty well, just sometimes things are a little off.” The Badgers have been improving as a team, and some players have really started to shine. Sophomore outside hitter Ellen Chapman had 24 kills and only one error last weekend against Indiana. She set the tone for the night, scoring the most points of any individual on the court. Junior libero Annemarie Hickey also had a good performance against Indiana, maintaining her reputation as one of the best diggers in the nation. According to Waite, Hickey has been improving her own serve and showing leadership on the team. Hickey acknowledged she is gaining confidence with her serve. This could very well be just what Wisconsin needs to beat Illinois this weekend. When the two met previously this

season, they went for a hardearned five sets that ended with a Wisconsin loss. Chapman said Wisconsin will need to serve better if it wants to take down Illinois. “Our passing and serving is gonna help us a lot,” Hickey agreed. “Believing that we can do it, knowing that we are a really good team and that we can win games, we just need to believe in ourselves.” Fundamentals aside, confidence may be the key to Wisconsin ultimately coming together this season. As the Badgers enter this weekend, they will be halfway through Big Ten play. Hopefully for Wisconsin, it’s not too little too late. The Badgers have many top-tier players. What seems to be missing from the equation is the chemistry between the team. Wisconsin has noticeably been a team that tends to fall behind early in sets and fights its way back either to take the set or to end in a hard-fought, close game. “[Starting strong] is something we have to be better at. It’s never easy, but a team as they mature has to be really eager and hungry to get a fast start and a jump on a team,” Waite said. “A good sign is they’re making some comebacks, but that’s not preferable.” Without a doubt the Badgers will have to bring teamwork and tenacity this weekend. Illinois and Northwestern are teams that can’t be looked past, especially with the rocky past couple of weeks that Wisconsin has had.

Women’s Soccer

Final regular-season game holds implications for Badgers

Momentum, tournament seed on the line By Blake Duffin the daily cardinal

The Wisconsin women’s soccer team (5-4-1 Big Ten, 12-5-1 overall) will play its last regularseason game Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. in Iowa City, Iowa. The Badgers will square off against the Hawkeyes (2-5-3, 11-5-3), who are looking to maintain their spot in the Big Ten tournament. Iowa started off the season 9-0 but has only won two games since. The Hawkeyes have not won since

Sept. 23, and they are currently on a four-game losing streak. With that being said, the Hawkeyes have been competitive against high quality teams. Just last week, they battled No. 4 Penn State and came up just short in a 2-1 loss. Concentration and consistency will be important for Wisconsin Saturday. The Badgers, on the other hand, are currently riding a five-game win streak as they head to Iowa. Led by sophomore forward Cara Walls, Wisconsin has scored 12 goals in its last five games, five of which have come from Walls. The Badgers will look to continue their offensive burst Saturday afternoon. On the contrary, the Hawkeyes have only scored eight goals during conference play this season, com-

pared to the Badgers’ 18. The clear struggle for Wisconsin will be shutting down Iowa sophomore forward Cloe Lacasse. Lacasse leads the Hawkeyes with goals (12) and assists (six). All time, the Badgers are 8-4-2 against Iowa, including 4-4-2 when playing the Hawkeyes in Iowa City. Wisconsin has shut out Iowa in three of the teams’ last five meetings. Although the Badgers have locked up a playoff spot, this game still holds incentive for Wisconsin to get a good seed in the conference tournament. A loss in this game could result in a two-spot slide of the Badgers’ current No. 4 seed. Further, a win in the regular-season finale would keep the momentum rolling for Wisconsin.

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Sophomore outside hitter Ellen Chapman leads the Badgers with 246 kills, good enough for an average of 3.15 per set.

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Football

Running game faces stout Spartan front By Ryan Hill the daily cardinal

In 2010, Wisconsin (3-1 Big Ten, 6-2 overall) lost to Michigan State (1-3, 4-4) 34-24 away from home in an otherwise regular road game. Last year however, the Badgers were forced to play in East Lansing again, thanks to the scheduling adjustments made after Nebraska was added to the conference. I think we all know how that one ended. But, thanks to the inaugural Big Ten Championship game, the Badgers played the Spartans in Indianapolis, winning 42-39. Even so, nothing was easy in the shootout and it usually isn’t for Wisconsin away from home. Finally, the Badgers get to show off to the Spartans the atmosphere that makes Camp Randall special on Saturday for the first time since their 38-30 win in 2009. “It’ll be pretty cool to get them in front of our fans,” junior running back James White said. “They’ll come ready to play and so will we.” White and senior running back Montee Ball will be tested against the No. 12 Spartan defense. Though the Spartans and junior quarterback Andrew Maxwell—who had

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Wisconsin’s rushing attack has caught fire over the past three weeks, averaging 326 yards per game, but it will face a true test in Michigan State’s No. 12-rated rushing defense Saturday. the tough task of replacing heralded Kirk Cousins—have had trouble putting points on the board, the defense has more than made up for it by stuffing the run. Though the performances on the ground for the Badgers the last few weeks have certainly been impressive, keep in mind that the games were against three programs that are essentially in free-fall. Illinois, Purdue and

Minnesota, the last three Badger opponents, have not tallied a conference win and have shown little ability to stop the run throughout the conference season. The Spartans, on the other hand, held Michigan and senior quarterback Denard Robinson to just 12 points last Saturday, as well as Ohio State and sophomore quarterback Braxton Miller to 17 points Sept. 29. “They fly to the ball and they’re

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physical as a defense,” White said. “They’re going to hit you whenever they get a chance to.” But the Spartans defensive front won’t be the only one tested Saturday. The Badgers—ranked No. 23 nationally in run defense— have a hefty task in stopping the burly Spartans senior running back Le’Veon Bell. The 244-pound workhorse already has 226 carries on the sea-

son for 984 yards. The running back with the second-highest carries for the Spartans this season has only 16 attempts. Luckily, the Badgers might be catching the Spartans’ offense in a period of transition, much like the Badgers’ offensive line at the start of this season. “You see a lot of different numbers at their offensive line position,” Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema said Monday in his press conference. “So you know they’re going through some transition there.” Maxwell has been slowed by his sub-par completion percentage rate. The junior has completed 59 percent (82-of-138) of his passes in games the Spartans have won but only 51 percent (78-of-152) of his passes in losses. “In those games when they weren’t really catching the ball well at wide receiver, people were able to focus and take away Bell,” Bielema said. Ball also has an opportunity to move into second place in the NCAA record books for rushing touchdowns. He only needs two to surpass former Texas running back Ricky Williams and needs only four to tie former Miami (OH) running back Travis Prentice.

Men’s Hockey

Badgers look to bounce back By Matt Masterson the daily cardinal

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The Daily Cardinal enters Friday’s showdown with momentum that can only come from publishing eight weeks’ worth of newspapers without using the Associated Press to fill space.

Cardinal to kick Herald’s tooshie By Adieu L. Tillox the daily cardinal

Once every year, two newspapers battle on a field of mud, sweat and more than occasionally blood and (Herald) tears. Such will be the case when The Daily Cardinal faces off Friday against its long-time rival, The Badger Herald, in their annual flag football game. After half a year of embarrassing its counterpart in print, The Cardinal will transition from wiping the beer-soaked Cardinal floors with The Herald to wiping the field with its not-so-worthy opponent. Sports writers Taylor Valentine, Arts Editor Marina Oliver and Managing Editor Alex

DiTullio will lead the onslaught in a three-pronged quarterback force more formidable than the three-headed dog guarding the Sorcerer’s Stone. “I’ve never seen such intensity from our guys,” co-head coach Vince Huth said. “I’ve been telling them to cut it down from four-a-days to two-adays, but they just look up from eating tires and lifting trailers with a look that says, ‘I will eat your babies, bitch.’” Weighing in on The Herald’s odds of upsetting the majestic bird, Badger Herald Editor in Chief Ryan Rainey said he believes his staff’s close attention to detail will “aide” them to victory. “Just like the Memorial

Union fire extinguished, we will extinguish The Cardinal on the field,” Rainey said. But according to co-head coach Matt Masterson, The Cardinal has a secret weapon that will first confuse and eventually wear down even the largest Herald lineman. Standing 5’2” and weighing in at 90 pounds, offensive lineman Mara Jezior aka “the Jeziorasaurus” is shiftier than Steve Buscemi’s eyes. Similar to a golden gun, Jezior is living proof that power does not necessarily correlate with size. “There’s only one animal in this joint that can spread its wings and fly,” said Jezior. “And it’s not a fucking badger.”

The Wisconsin men’s hockey team (0-2-0 overall) will look to bounce back from an openingweekend sweep as it hits the road to take on Minnesota-Duluth (2-2-0) in its first WCHA series of the season. The Badgers began the season ranked No. 15 in the country but fell off after back-to-back losses against Northern Michigan. Wisconsin had the lead in the third period of both games but let each one slip away. “I think we just got away from what we got the lead from—getting pucks in deep, getting pucks on goal,” freshman defenseman Kevin Schulze said. “So we’ve been working on conditioning and getting pucks on the net.” While the outcome was disappointing for the players, the UNM series did serve to help the Badgers. With the games played in Green Bay, younger Wisconsin players got their first taste of life on the road. “It wasn’t a complete road series because it was only two hours away from here, but it was definitely a good stepping stone to get used to the actual environment of a road game,” Schulze said. “It definitely got me into the mode of what a road series would be like—you bus, you stay in a hotel, you play in a different rink,” freshman forward Morgan Zulinick said. “I kind of know how the pattern works, so I’m more prepared for this one.” Minnesota-Duluth has split each of its two series so far this season with Ohio State and Notre

Dame, and is looking to gain some consistency heading into conference play. The Bulldogs are led by senior winger Mike Seidel, who is tied for sixth in the country with six points (three goals, three assists), and freshman winger Austin Farley, who has started off strong with four points in his first three games. “They are a very aggressive team, whether it’s special teams or five-on-five,” freshman defenseman Eddie Wittchow said. “We’re going to play harder than them,” Zulinick said. “We’re going to have to play more physical than them. And we’re going to come out looking for two wins.” The Badgers are trying to gain some stability of their own. The team scored just three goals in its first series of 2012-’13 after averaging 2.84 goals per game last season. Head coach Mike Eaves decided to split time in net against Northern Michigan, starting sophomore goalie Joel Rumpel in game one but replacing him with fellow sophomore Landon Peterson for the second game. Rumpel was the presumptive No. 1 goaltender for the team this season, taking over the reigns as the starter late last year with an impressive stretch of games to close out the season. Peterson, however, has also shown off his ability to provide quality starts when given the chance. “It doesn’t really matter who’s in net, we have three great young goaltenders,” Peterson said. “Whoever’s in net we’re all behind them and we all have faith in them.”